A child called it

I just got done reading A Child called It. It was such a good book I almost cryed a few times.

i cant belive a mother would do that, Ok i do belive it but i dont understand why. I cant see why she would do it, why the dad let her, and why didnt he just knock the crap out of her when he was older?

I have to go find the other 2 in hopes they explain more what happend.

Good book though if you have not gotten to read it yeat you should.

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I have read them all. The other two books "The Lost Boy" and "A Man Called Dave" are good books as well. Obviously, the physical torture by his Mother is over in his life, but that man lived a life of hell just dealing with his horrible childhood. It is a miracle that he lived through it all. They are all great books and make you want to be there for these kids. I teach school in East Texas and we just had two students removed from our middle school and high school because their mother kept them locked in a shed. She would let them out to come to school. It is horrible what our kids go through everyday. I pray for them all daily!

I read all three of the books in one sitting. The first one was really good, the second one was pretty good, and the third one bored me. It is sick what he went through. Check ebay for the other books, they're pretty cheap there. I sold mine there and barely got anything for them.

I read all three too. Probably one of my favorite books (the first one). Very sad and sickening story, but the fact he survived and turned into such a wonderful person speaks loudly. Not everyone that is abused turns into a psycho path and murders. I hate when people use that excuse...

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In the back of the book it says questions? alot of questions are answered in the next 2 if you still have some after reading them please write this adress. I have about a million Qs so i have to read the next and I may end up writing.

there are so many things that just dont make sence and at the end he could have at least hented at what happend to his mom.

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I read the 2nd book while sitting in the airport in Austin and flying home. It's a fast reading book and I couldn't put it down. How tragic to think that a parent (s) would abuse a child such as this Mother did.

Someday I will have to look up the 1st and the 3rd books in the series and read them, too.

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I have a hard time explaining how i fell on this. It does not shock me at all that things like this happen. His was the the 3rd worst case in cali history. I dont know what happend with the first or 2nd but I still dont think it would shock me.

I know people have mental disorders that can cause things like this to happen. What i dont understand is what they were thinking. His mom knew what she was doing was wrong if she didnt know that she wouldnt have wated for everyone to be gone to do the worst to him. But what was gong through her head? I dont think there is anything that could make me do that to my kids. Ive been sitting here trying to think of one reason that someone may feel the need to kill, beat, tourtur, or starve there child and I cant think of any.

I hate people who do this but at the same time i feel bad for some of them. My mom was a drunk, she still is. she has gotten to the point were her brain is swolen, shes not all there any more, and im shocked that her liver is not totaly gone. I have seen her go from a lovley woman who modeled undies and Pjs for empouriom, to looking older then my grandma with thin yellow skin, yellow eyes, being brused with a poke, and then back to looking old but not half as bad. shes around 50, I think, last summer there were times when she looked like she was 90 and had been dead for a few days. her hair is falling out, that does not run in the family, Her eyes go from buggy to sunk in, if you saw her you would think she was going to die. She did it to her self, No one told her to drink, but at the same time shes sick and cant help it. I know alot of people have recorevered, But she is past the point. I have knowen many alchlics and addicts but i have never seen one progress as fast as she has. the last step is death or insanity witch leeds to death. Right now we dont know witch way she will go, I say insanity my X-step dad says death. Now my mom put me through hell, Not as bad as david but stil hell. I dont like my mom when shes drinking, We dont go over there unless we have a reason. Now if my mom stoped drinking right now id love her, id be bale to put the past were it belongs, behind me. I understand that my mother is sick and that she cant always controll her self. I dont blame her but i do. I hate the drunk her but i love the sober her. she is 2 diffrent people and i feel bad for both of them. Its hard to decribe. so anyway i do feel bad for some of them, Im sure none of you fell the same way about it unless you have been around it like i have. I still cant stand people who do things like that but Im sad for some of them at the same time.

I also dont understand why the kids let it happen, yes they are children and scared, they have been tought to lie and thats what they do. But when it gets to the point were they dont care why put up with it? When i was 10 I got sick of my mom and slaped her then tossed her to the ground. My step dad steped in and stoed me from doing more. After that i started to defend myself more. When i was 15 i got sick of it and no one was there to step in. When i was done with my mom she wouldnt see out of one eye for at least a week and she had a broken hand. I figured i would get it later but that was the last time she touched my brother or me. I did go to juvie and lakeland a week later, thats why i dont know how long it took her to open her eye.

I know my story was diffrent then others but at the same time alot of kids got to the same point I did, were I didnt give a crap and it was going to end one way or another. You never hear about kids sticking up for them self.

I have alot of mixed feelings on child abuse, I dont like it but its hard for me to explain alot of what i fell about it, No matter how i put it it just does not sound right.

I have that problem alot, When i feel strongly about something i just can get the words out right and i end up rambeling trying to explain. One day im gonna get it just right. But i dont hink today is that day LOL

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And you're proud of beating the crap out of your mom? Like the blind leading the blind.

Not everyone has the courage to stand up for themselves. More so I'd think for little kids. Your parents are the ones that are suppose to let you know what is right or wrong, the mother had him thinking that he was "bad" and deserved to be punished. Basic mind wash.

I havent read the book in ages, but just trying to remember it, it seems like the mother was having a rough time, and everything was going haywire (husband cheating, having to stay home with the kids). Sounds like a control issue, that the only thing she could control was this one kid (she didnt need to do it to the others cuz she had him). She was in total control, because her life was uncontrollable. (Not sticking up for the mom in anyway, but psychologically speaking that's most likely the reasoning behind it).

I didnt say i was proud of it. I said it put a stop to what she was doing. I am proud that I stoped her, I know I could have handled it diffrently. but when you walk into a room and see someone choking your little brother, the kid you practly rased, the kid you took on dates with you so he wouldnt have to stay home, You dont think much befor you do something. Im not proud of doing it but im not ashamed of it eather. My brother and i are very close, he lives with me now, and I would do it agin in a heart beat.

its easy to say what I did was wrong you were not there, you dont know my mom, and you dont know me that well. But you would probly change your mind if you were around then. I called my dad upset the next day because I didnt know what i should do or how i should feel about it. he said i did what I though I needed to do and that Hes shocked someone had not done it befor. Now my dad is kinda strange, it made me feel better but I decited to call my grandma (moms mom, the lady who has been paying my mothers rent sence she moved out, the lady who loves my mother more then anyone but also knows almost as much about her as i do) I told her what happend she calmed me down and siad the same thing my dad had said. My grandma and my dad have never agreed on anything befor that and have not sence. i even talked to my step dad about it and he said Something like shes your mom you shouldnt have done it but you though you had to and walked off. My step dad is not a very nice person, he was rased that no matter what the parents are right so to have him simi agree with it made me feel better. I still dont like my step dad but at lest he help me feel better once.

I have only read the first book and one of the reasons i want to read the others is because i want to know what made the mom do that. It didnt say the husband was cheating but i did get the feeling that she was cheating and he was not his son. it did say that befor it got very bad his mom and dad would have happy hour every day sometimes drinking from after noon untill the kids were alseep. the only thing I can think of is she cheated on him and hated her self for it and took it out on her son. I didnt read the others yeat but thats what I got from it.

I know he was brain washed to think he was bad, I went though the same thing, In a diffrent way instead of bad I was fat, ugly, stupid, slutty, and could do no right. but at the same time you could tell at times he knew he was not bad. Any time he tryed to stand up for him self she stoped. When she held him under water he grabed her sholders hurting her as soon as he did hat she let go and yelled at him but didnt hold him under the water like that agin. she did push him under water but didnt hold him there like she had the first time. Agin I didnt read all the books but I took it that she was upset with something she did and was a drunk B who took it out on her son. he said when it first started you could tell if he was going to be ok that night by her blood shot eyes, A sighn of drinking, and how she was dressed, agin if your sloshed you usualy dont dress up. That some times she went back to being a good mom agin dressing nice and being a real mom agin, She was trying to quit and she would quit long enough to get her stuff together so she didnt get in trouble. She stabed him and tryed to fix him and let him play out side, She was drunk was falling voer tossed the knife saw that she hurt him bad and tryed to make up for it. I dont know for sure what was going on, thats why i fell like I need to read the others, but it sounds like she was just like my mom, Unhappy with her self and drunk. I could be totaly wrong but thats the feeling I got from that book, It may change once i read the others.

Am I Proud of what i did? No, but im not ashamed of it and yes i would do it agin in a heart beat.

I'm gonna trade this life for fortune and fame I'd even cut my hair and change my name

I read all three books too and agree that the third one was a bit of a slow read. Still liked them all. Dave was also a guest on Oprah many years ago. His story is more than sad. I'm glad that he was able to survive it.

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This was the 3rd worse case in CA that anyone knows about. My husbands childhood ranks right up there and I'm sure there are others that no one ever hears about because they don't write books about it.

I dont think it was because he wrote a book about it, I think it was the 3rd highest because she was cought.

Alot of the time no one says anything so no one knows about it. Im sure there are worse going on right now. Im sure there are many kids that have been killed by parents with out anyone knowing they are even gone, or they find out but it turns into a missing person case and sooner or later is forgotten about.

You have herd of babys found in trash cans sometimes alive others dead, Babys droped off clifs, and left in bath rooms. it makes me wonder how many are born and left behind to die that we dont know about. how many are droped off clifs and crushed by parents that we dont know about.

I'm gonna trade this life for fortune and fame I'd even cut my hair and change my name